About course
Agricultural and food engineering covers a wide array of areas in the pre and post harvest technology for crops. In India, this department was initiated by Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kharagpur in the year 1952 on the recommendation of the Dhar Committee.
According to Wikipedia, Food Engineering is a multidisciplinary field of applied physical sciences which combines science, microbiology, and engineering education for food and related industries. Food engineering includes, but is not limited to, the application of agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering principles to food materials.
The activities in Agriculture and food engineering include wide array of activities such as food processing, machinery, packaging, ingredient manufacturing, instrumentation and control. It is the job of the food engineers to R&D of new foods, manufacturing, packaging and distributing food products, design and installation of the production process among several other responsibilities.
Core subjects – The core subjects include the following areas of Crop Production Technology, Soil Technology, Fluid Mechanics, Crop Production, Agriculture Biotechnology, Soil Technology among others.
The broad areas covered at IIT Kharagpur are Post-Harvest Technology, Dairy and Food Engineering, Dairy and Food Engineering, Farm Machinery and Power Workshop and Aqua-Cultural Engineering.
Further education
After completing the B. Tech degree, you can either pursue M. Tech or go for research. You can join Indian Agricultural Research institute (IARI) as junior fellow researcher and become agricultural scientists.
Job profiles – The job profile of the Agriculture and Food Engineering include the following roles:
Farm manager
Horticulturist
Project Directors
Project Coordinators
Product Design Engineers
Research and development
Operation of manufacturing, packaging and distributing systems
Design and installation of production process
Marketing and technical support for manufacturing plants
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